Centre for Intellectual Property Policy

Who Are We?

The CIPP’s mission is to advance research and policy formation of intellectual property and innovation systems.

To achieve this mission the CIPP focuses on three interconnected priority areas:

The CIPP carries out interdisciplinary research to understand the role of intellectual property policies and rules in contributing to creativity and innovation. In particular, the Centre examines if and how intellectual property contributes to broad social goals such as increased health, cultural development, access to information and economic growth.

The CIPP enhances understanding of intellectual property and innovation systems among students at McGill University at the undergraduate, graduate and executive level, as well as within the community.

IP News This Month

— The IP issue that could sink the TPP treaty is… cheese. EU demands over geographic indicators have led US lawmakers to wave wheels of gouda, and insist on the right to treat such words as generic in foreign markets

— Happy birthday for everyone! A bombshell piece of evidence in the form of a 1927 songbook could end a studio’s copyright control over the world’s most famous song, and put it in the public domain

— Take that, Taylor: after photographers in Montreal and Washington boycotted her concerts over onerous IP terms, Taylor Swift agreed to relax the copyright conditions in her show contractsMore »